peccatum

Latin

Etymology

From peccō (“offend, sin”).

Pronunciation

Noun

peccātum n (genitive peccātī); second declension

  1. sin, error, fault
    • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Ioannes 8:34
      omnis qvi facit peccatvm servvs est peccati
      Everyone who does sin is a slave of sin

Inflection

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative peccātum peccāta
Genitive peccātī peccātōrum
Dative peccātō peccātīs
Accusative peccātum peccāta
Ablative peccātō peccātīs
Vocative peccātum peccāta

Descendants

References
  • peccatum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • peccatum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • peccatum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • peccatum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) a guilty conscience: conscientia mala or peccatorum, culpae, sceleris, delicti
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